Vegetable-slicer



(Model.)

S. E. MASSARI.

VEGETABLE SLIGER.

No. 279,782. Patented June 19,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SILVIO E. MASSARI, OF' COLUMBUS, OHIO.

VEGETABLE-SLICER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,782, dated June 19,1883.

- Application filed February 23, 1883. (ModeL) To all whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, SILvIo E. MASSARI, of Columbus, in the county ofFranklin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin VegetableSlicers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention consists in asimple and durable hand vegetable-slicer, inwhich a slicingknife has .combined with it, at or near one end, a screwthat enters the vegetable to be sliced, and causes the knife, as it isrevolved, to follow up the cut in a spiral and continuous manner, saidknife also having attached to it, at or near its opposite end, ahandlein the form of a loop or ring, through which the finger of the operatoris projected to twirl or rotate the knife, and that may also serve as ameans for suspending the knife when not in use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a side view of my improved vegetable-slicer as seenfrom the cutting-edge of the knife. Fig. 2 is a back View 'of the sameat right angles to Fig. 1, and Fig.

3 is a transverse. section on the line 00 x in Fig. 2.

A in the drawings indicates the knife, which may be a flat and straightblade of steel sharpened on its cutting-edge a from its back or outerface, and which has attached to it, at one end, a screw, B, arranged toproject from the face of the knife and at right angles thereto, whileits opposite end is constructed to form or has attached to it a handle,which is in the form of a loop or ring, 0.

The slicer thus constructed may be used for slicing vegetables ofdifferent kinds; but it will be sufficient here to describe it asapplied to slicing potatoes. Supposing the slicer to be used by aright-handed person, the potato is held by the left hand, with its endsfacing right and left. The screwB is then in serted and started to screwinto the right-hand end or portion of the vegetable, and its rotation inthe same or entering direction continued by the operator placing afinger of the right hand into the ring 0 and twirling or rotating theknife A as rapidly as possible away from his or her person, while theopposite end of the vegetable is held by the left hand. This willproduce a quick and uniform reduction of the vegetable into a continuousor spiral slice, which will in many cases be a desirable and neat formfor dishing it up in, but which may, if preferred, be subdivided bycross-cutting it into a series of slices.

By the use of this slicer, which is as simple as it is durable, and maybe'operated by a child, a great saving of time will be effected anduniformity in the slicing secured, The loop or ring 0 not only gives asure hold for rapidly twirling the knife by the finger, but is used forsuspending the knife on'a nail, screw, or hook when the sliceris not inuse.

I am aware that a disk having an opening, a cutting-blade projectingover the same, a screw secured to its center, and a crank-handlerevolving the disk has been arranged in a grooved rim provided with ahandle for holding the same, and a stationary knife to prevent thevegetable from turning and severing 'the slices is old, and I- thereforelay no claim to such invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, avegetableslicer composed of a knife, A, havinga ring, 0, at one endinthe plane of the knife, and a screw, B, at its opposite end at rightangles to said knife, the ring 0 serving the double purpose of revolvingthe knife and a means for suspending it when not in use, as set forth.

SlLVIO E. MASSARI.

Witnesses:

PETER M. Koon, DAVID M. CHARTERS.

